sot-weed n.
tobacco.
London Spy I 12: We had each of us stuck in our Mouths a Pipe of Sotweed. | ||
Letters from the Dead to the Living in Works (1760) II 190: By that time we had every one ramm’d a full charge of sot-weed into our infernal guns. | ||
Hudibras Redivivus II:8 7: I sat me down amidst a Crew / Of Old and Young, the Lord knows who! / Some puffing Sot-weed o’er their Glasses, / In one another’s Parchment Faces. | ||
York Spy 9: I’d [...] call’d for a Pint of Sir John Barleycorn’s best Stingo, and a Penny-worth of Sots-weed. | ||
, , | Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue. | |
Lex. Balatronicum. | ||
Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue. | ||
Vocabulum. | ||
Sl. Dict. (1890). | ||
Aus. Sl. Dict. 78: Sot Weed, tobacco. |